Taxon: Agrostis avenacea J. F. Gmel.

• the 1 historical accession(s) associated with this name.
• Check PlantSearch database of Botanic Gardens Conservation International for possible non-NPGS germplasm.

Common names:

• bent grass   (Source: R. P. Ellis, p.c.) – English
  
• blown grass   (Source: BSBI ) – English
  
• common blown grass   (Source: F Victoria ) – English
  
• fairy grass   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• New Zealand wind grass   (Source: NZeal J Bot [as Lachnagrostis filiformis]) – English
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Weed   (fide Grass SAfr)
  

Distributional range:

• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Malesia: Papua New Guinea
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia - New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia
  New Zealand: New Zealand

• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - California
  Southern Mexico: Mexico - Queretaro
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Southern South America: Argentina - Buenos Aires, Entre Rios, La Pampa, Santa Fe; Chile - Easter Island, Los Lagos, Maule, Valparaiso

References:

• Allan, H. H. B. et al. 1961–. Flora of New Zealand. [= Lachnagrostis filiformis (G. Forst.) Trin.].
• Botanical Society of the British Isles. BSBI taxon database (on-line resource).
• Edgar, E. 1995. New Zealand species of Deyeuxia P. Beauv. and Lachnagrostis Trin. (Gramineae: Aveneae). New Zealand J. Bot. 33:19. [= Lachnagrostis filiformis (G. Forst.) Trin.].
• Ellis, R. P. 1997. pers. comm. [re. English common names].
• Foreman, D. B. & N. G. Walsh. 1993–. Flora of Victoria.
• Gibbs-Russell, G. E. et al. 1990. Grasses of southern Africa. Mem. Bot. Surv. S. Africa vol. 58.
• Harden, G. J., ed. 1990–1993. Flora of New South Wales.
• Hnatiuk, R. J. 1990. Census of Australian vascular plants. Australian Flora and Fauna Series No. 11.
• Instituto de Botánica Darwinion. 2008. Flora del Conosur. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares. [= Lachnagrostis filiformis (G. Forst.) Trin.].
• Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
• Nava Rojo, A. et al. 2002. Agrostis avenacea (Poaceae: Pooideae): first record for the Mexican flora. Sida 20:423–429.
• Perelman, S. B. et al. 2001. Cross-scale vegetation patterns of flooding Pampa grasslands. J. Ecol. 89:562–577. [mentions].
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Wagner, W. L. et al. Flora of the Hawaiian Islands (on-line resource).
• Zedler, P. H. & C. Black. 2004. Exotic plant invasions in an endemic-rich habitat: The spread of an introduced Australian grass, Agrostis avenacea J. F. Gmel., in California vernal pools. Austral Ecol. 29:537–546.
• Zuloaga, F. O. et al. 1994. Catalogo de la familia Poaceae en la Republica Argentina. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 47. [= Lachnagrostis filiformis (G. Forst.) Trin.].

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Agrostis avenacea.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Agrostis avenacea.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Agrostis avenacea.

Synonyms:

• (=) Avena filiformis G. Forst.
  
• (≡) Deyeuxia forsteri Kunth
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• (=) Lachnagrostis filiformis (G. Forst.) Trin.
  

Check other web resources for Agrostis avenacea J. F. Gmel.:

• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• Flora del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• CNWG: Catalogue of New World Grasses Searchable Database
• Grass Manual on the Web: Manual of Grasses for North America North of Mexico
• World Grass Species-Descriptions: Morphological species description from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AusGrass2: Australian grass data from Bryan K. Simon’s on-line database
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Check other web resources for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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